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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Despise Enough Few Few People Foolishness Knowledge Must People See Solitude Used Vanity Very Virtue Well Who World

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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Curiosity Devotion Does Less Make Pilgrims Than

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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: City First Garden God Made

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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Cheap Cure Endures Hope Ills Universal

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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Account Great Love Religion Sin

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Always Come Does Eternal Last Nothing Now Past

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Life is an incurable disease.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Disease Incurable Life

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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Cheap Cure Endure Hope Ills Men Only Universal

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Changes Constant Nature Scene Were World

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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

~Abraham Cowley

Topics: Contempt Envy Grant High Lie Low May Me Means Only Too

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

Died: July 28th, 1667

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